2026 - nowtechnical manager
Modular Robotics Software Platform for Autonomous Agricultural Machinery
A modular software stack for autonomous farm machines: perception, navigation and fleet tooling. Łukasiewicz PIT internal R&D program.
01 · about
Building robots that see, think
and move on their own.
Hey, I'm Iman Esfandiyar, a robotics engineer and researcher based in Poznań, Poland. Since 2012 I've been working on computer vision, motion planning and control for autonomous mobile robots, mixing classical robotics with modern AI, in both academia and industry.
These days I'm doing a PhD in robotics at Poznan University of Technology and working as Chief Specialist in Robotics & AI at Łukasiewicz Research Network, Poznań Institute of Technology, where I lead the software and AI side of autonomous agricultural machinery.
Along the way I've been a researcher, developer and technical lead on national and EU projects, shipping software for industrial robots, autonomous city buses, farm robots and drone swarms.
ROSC++PythonReinforcement Learning
Sensor FusionMotion PlanningControlComputer Vision
Simulation EnvironmentsEdge–CloudDigital Twins
02 · experience
Where I've worked
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2022 - now
Chief Specialist, Robotics & AI
Łukasiewicz Research Network · Poznań Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence Development department. Technical management plus plenty of hands-on work: autonomous agricultural robotics, perception pipelines and edge-to-cloud robot software.
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2021 - now
Research & Teaching Assistant
Poznań University of Technology
Research and teaching in automatic control and robotics; PhD research on dense mapping and traversability for field robots.
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2021 - 2024
Robotic Software Development Lead
ROGOŻ Sp. z o.o.
Led development of autonomous drone-swarm systems: swarm management and monitoring software for photovoltaic-farm inspection, drone shows and critical-infrastructure security.
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2019 - 2021
Research Assistant
Poznań University of Technology
Advanced driver-assistance system for articulated urban buses: sensor fusion, state estimation, planning and control. ROS packages in C++ on Linux.
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2017 - 2018
Head of Workshop
Spadana Co
Vending-machine production line management and mechanical system design.
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2011 - 2014
Research Team Leader · DML Rescue Robot Group
Azad University of Damavand
Coordinated the rescue-robot research group: mechanical design, modular electronics, embedded systems and robot communication.
// education
- 2024 - now PhD, Robotics · Poznan University of Technology · automation, electronics & space technologies
- 2018 - 2020 MSc, Automatic Control & Robotics · Poznan University of Technology · thesis: lining-up maneuver algorithmization for automated articulated buses (with prof. M. Michałek)
- 2011 - 2016 BSc, Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics · Azad University, Damavand
03 · projects
Things I've worked on
2022 - 2025technical manager · developer
ICOS: Towards a Functional Continuum Operating System
EU Horizon Europe meta-OS spanning IoT, edge and cloud. Built the autonomous farm-robot use case and resilient edge-to-cloud communication for agricultural robots.
2025project owner
Agriverse: Synthetic-Data Vision for Crop & Weed Detection
Computer-vision pipeline for crop and weed detection trained on synthetic data generated from digital twins of fields.
2022 - 2025chief specialist
AgrifoodTEF: Test & Experiment Facilities for Agri-Food AI
EU Digital Europe facility for validating AI in agriculture; plant detection and autonomous farm-robot development.
2019 - 2021system developer
ADAS for Articulated City Buses
Advanced driver-assistance for precise maneuvers of articulated Solaris city buses: GNSS-based guidance, state estimation and control, validated in field tests.
2021 - 2024team lead · product manager
Autonomous Drone Swarms
Reconfigurable drone-swarm technology for PV-farm inspection, drone shows and digital security of critical infrastructure: swarm management and monitoring software.
04 · publications
Papers & talks
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2025
Mapping the Unseen Ground: A Survey on Dense Mapping and Traversability Methods for Agricultural and Forestry Robots
I. Esfandiyar, D. Belter · IEEE Access
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2023
GNSS-Based Driver Assistance for Charging Electric City Buses: Implementation and Lessons Learned from Field Testing
Remote Sensing, vol. 15, iss. 11
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2025
Dual-Link Data-Resilient Edge-to-Cloud Communication Framework for Agricultural Robots
IoTAI 2025 · 2nd International Conference on IoT-AI
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2024
Towards a Functional Continuum Operating System: ICOS MetaOS
GIECS First Global Summit, Brussels
05 · contact
Let's build something autonomous.
Always happy to talk research collabs, R&D consulting, or field robots in general.
iman [at] esfandiyar [dot] com
Poznań, Poland
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